COURT HEARS WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF FATAL SHOOTING IN LIMERICK

A member of a Limerick motorcycle club has told a jury he was chased by members of a rival club just before a member of his own club was killed.

He was giving evidence in the trial of Alan McNamara from Mountfune in Murroe, Co. Limerick who denies murdering Andrew O’Donoghue in 2015.

Seamus Duggan is a member of the Road Tramps Motorcycle Club and on the day before the shooting, June 19th 2015 – he said he held Alan McNamara’s wife back outside a pub in Doon, Co. Limerick while two other members of his club forcibly removed Mr. McNamara’s biker jacket, which contained the emblem of a rival club called the Caballeros.

The court heard Doon is considered to be Road Tramps territory.

The following day, Mr. Duggan said he was chased by at least one other member of the Caballeros as he drove home.

He said he felt they wanted retribution.

Mr. McNamara is accused of using a sawn-off shot gun to shoot Road Tramps biker Andrew O’Donoghue in the face outside his clubhouse.

It is the prosecution’s case that his stepson Robert Cusack arrived at the scene moments afterwards in the car that was chasing Mr. Duggan and that he hid the weapon in an effort to impede the prosecution.